Pregnant Woman Impaled in Bizarre Accident
Submitted By: BizarreNews
Article Date: 01/22/2002
URL: http://www.goofball.com/news/20020122_bizarre
LONDON - A woman, late in her pregnancy, has survived being speared through the chest by a wooden stake which narrowly missed her heart and unborn child. Astrid Oates, 20, was impaled on a fence post after the driver of the car she was traveling in swerved to avoid a fox. The car smashed through a wooden fence and one of the posts shattered and speared her through her right breast. It took surgeons four hours to remove the spear of wood which was lodged close to major organs, but they told the 8-months pregnant woman her unborn child is fine and will probably be born naturally at full-term.